Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 4539.

  • Malcolm X The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Frederick Douglass The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Remy de Gourmont The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Charles Bukowski The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
    Charles Bukowski
    American writer (1920 - 1994)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The will of man is his happiness.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Publilius Syrus The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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  • Baltasar Gracián The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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